The US gov't owns at least 50% of every state in the west. Or they could just build in the middle of bum f*ck Texas and get fossil and renewables. Too bad Texas' grid is so piss poor
They ignore it the same reason they ignore the fact that we want single player games first: microtx
The thing that is killing all these live service games is they don't start with single player and expand the endgame with a live service.
That's the only reason that Destiny was a decade long live service. They had trouble at Destiny2's launch because they tried to skip the first person quality game play and the community revolted.
This is why Halo Infinite failed, they were all in with open-world microtx nothings and it ended poorly. A boring sandbox only game is still boring ala Starfield.
We are already cranking the per person spend way up, that's why we have a trillionaire. How we do it matters and the matters that be won't allow anything other than Neo-feudalism
population crashing will have people concentrate around cities like what is happening in Tokyo because that is where all other services will be. Rural is economic poverty.
In developed countries ISPs and telcos have to open their lines up to competition and homes pay less and have much more choice. We don't need satellites when the fiber already exists, its just hoarded.
It has everything to do with the lack of competition. US tax payers paid $4 billion to AT&T in 2004 for fiber to -every- home. And that was never delivered, yet they keep getting more money. This is regulatory capture.